What are others doing with Equinox?

The following are just some of the examples of what Eclipse members are doing with Equinox.

"At compeople Equinox is our primary runtime platform. We utilize it for our Riena open source project as well as for our enterprise applications. Equinox provides a homogeneous programming and runtime model for the client and server side, all based on the OSGi standard. Promoting Equinox Runtime as an Eclipse top level project is the next logical step to establish this unique platform as an open standard for Java applications," said Jürgen Wiesmaier, member of the board of directors and CTO of compeople AG."

	"Equinox is the result of the combined strength of Eclipse community implementation work and the proven standards of OSGi. OSGi is emerging as an important influence on the enterprise middleware space and the establishment of the Eclipse Runtime project and the central role of Equinox and EclipseLink are important milestones in its evolution."

"We are pleased to support the Eclipse Runtime Project since we are using Eclipse based tooling for our Artix and FUSE families of SOA infrastructure products," said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA Technologies. "IONA also supports the Apache ServiceMix project, which recently introduced an OSGi based implementation that works with Eclipse Equinox. Furthermore, because of our leadership in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group we see an interesting future convergence between Eclipse and OSGi that has tremendous potential to influence the direction of enterprise computing infrastructure."

	"Equinox has become one of the corner stones of MicroDocs Software strategy . In a number of successful projects it has proven to be an extremely reliable, efficient and feature rich framework. Equinox finally delivers on the software age old promise of a standard container."

"Eclipse Equinox enables Open-Xchange to provide highly scalable collaboration server components, installation and administration tools optimized for ISPs, hosters and telcos. In combination with Eclipse Equinox, Open-Xchange Server, with its fault tolerant design, self-healing abilities and serviceability without any downtime requirements, plus scalability and maintenance features, is ideally suited for large scale deployments for up to several millions of concurrent users."

	"It is less than a year ago that Deutsche Post made the strategic decision to contribute its SOA platform SOPERA to Eclipse. In order to even better participate in the Eclipse innovation network it is now time to move on. Deutsche Post counts on the Equinox platform which is driven forward in the Eclipse Runtime Initiative."

	"Equinox's OSGi implementation is at the core of BEA's microServices Architecture, allowing us to reduce time-to-market and cost of innovative, right-sized, and extensible products."

"Integrating Equinox into Actuate iServer was an important part of our commercial product strategy", said Wenfeng Li, VP of Product Development, Actuate Corporation and lead of the BIRT PMC. "It has provided a powerful run-time framework that delivers deployment flexibility to our customer base; as well as seamless integration for the Eclipse BIRT Report Engine, Actuate Interactive Viewer, and Actuate BusinessReport Studio."

	"Equinox forms the basis of the next generation of SOPERA ASF, the modular and distributed best practice SOA framework. Providing a uniform component model across all architecture tiers, Equinox is a ground-breaking runtime platform that facilitates building a SOA Suite for tomorrow's application areas today."

	"Equinox is a core part of Innoopract's Yoxos Eclipse distribution offerings and the focus of our strategic commitment to Eclipse. Innoopract has been a pioneer in modularizing web applications on top of Equinox, and contributes to the Equinox Community with the Rich Ajax platform and project leadership."

"Equinox and OSGi have enabled Band XI International to adapt to changing requirements in the embedded Java arena while reusing not only the component architecture, but many of the components themselves. We started with Cyrano, the HAZMAT sensor integration system used by the United States National Guard. Since then, Army research scientists have seen the power of Equinox and our components. We are now applying the same approach to solving problems in the area of fleet management and vehicle diagnostics and prognostics."

	"Equinox will be continually fostered by Genuitec as a key component of our products and processes, and we eagerly anticipate further influential evolutions from the Equinox ecosystem as a result of the new Eclipse initiative." - Maher Masri, CEO, Genuitec

ProSyst is an OSGi pioneer. The Open Source mBedded Server Equinox Edition from ProSyst is based on the Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework and services and contains some additional features and bundles on top of it. Our 120+ inhouse OSGi experts stand ready to provide Professional Services including Support Services and SLAs for Equinox. ProSyst has contributed the following components to Equinox: 1. Initial Provisioning, 2. IO Connector Service Specification, 3. Wire Admin Service Specification, 4. Declarative Services Specification.

"Equinox enables the efficient and componentized distribution of IBM's platform, middleware, and most importantly, our customers' applications," said Jim Colson, Distinguished Engineer and CTO, Client Technologies, IBM Software Group. Equinox and OSGi are used in hundreds of IBM Software products including IBM Lotus Notes and Sametime, WebSphere Application Server, Rational Application Developer, and the Jazz technology platform and forthcoming Jazz-based Rational Team Concert".

	"Equinox's OSGi framework is a great place to deploy Jetty, both as a host and as a plug-in. Webtide, the experts behind Jetty, congratulates the Eclipse Foundation on making Runtime a top level project."

	"The push towards Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi in runtime scenarios has huge potential. So much so that we started Code 9 explicitly to provide the education, mentoring and technological expertise needed by companies looking to step up their IT agility."